| Description | Interview with Dudley Bayford, probably conducted by Geoffrey Reeves:
Track 1: Test tone, 1.13 mins
Track 2: The interviewer suggests that pop until the 1950s was aimed at the lower middle class housewife - 'Forces Favourites' was typical pop, Dudley Bayford talks about 'Forces Favourites' and pop songs in the 1940s, Vera Lynn, the purity of melodies, the togetherness that came out of the songs, 2.41 mins
Track 3: The interviewer suggests that the industry has mushroomed over the last few years because today young people have money, and asked who bought records before this happened - Dudley Bayford talks about young people not having money before the Second World War and teenagers today do not value records in the same way, 3.37 mins
Track 4: He talks about songs being pushed into social factions, he talks about seeing young people on music shows on television, 1.38 mins
Track 5: The interviewer talks about an interview with Lonnie Donegan, who said that rock brought rhythm to English pop, which he regarded as a good thing; Dudley Bayford disagrees with this, saying that the whole world is based on rhythm and there has always been rhythm in popular song, he says that there was more rhythm in the melodies of the 1930s than there is now, and compares this to 'the cultural dances of the negro nations in Africa', 3.31 mins
Track 6: The interviewer asks him to compare publishing in the 1930s with now, 3.07 mins
Track 7: The interviewer asks him to talk about the numbers of copies of songs sold in the 1930s as compared with today, he talks about sales figures, 2.22 mins
Track 8: He continues to talk about sales figures and says that sales of sheet music have transferred to records, 2.56 mins
Track 9: He talks about Ken Dodd's 'Tears' and the reasons for its success, he talks about the purity of the melody and the simplicity of the lyric, 3.03 mins
Track 10: The interviewer asks about the pop song relationship between England and America - he says it has changed for the worse, 3.47 mins
Track 11: He discusses the content and style of singing, he says that there is not much good singing about today, but today's songs don't need good singing, the words don't matter so much, he talks about England and America's influence on each other's songs in the 1930s, 2.10 mins
Track 12: He describes what he thinks makes a good pop song, orchestral dressing is very important, he says that pop does not have any meaning in the cultural sense, 3.18 mins
Track 13: Silence, 0.26 mins
Total: 33.51 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0574980 |